Members will meet tonight to discuss possible rescue options, after it was announced the club would close from Sunday.

The club's owners say it has lost millions of dollars over the last six years.

But Paul Hickey says it's an ideal site for a bowling club, and the current lease doesn't expire until 2024.

"That is council community land, so a bowling club was considered to be a compatible use for that land, and I think we'd all like to see some sort of bowling club continue into the future," he said.

"I'm well aware of what happened at Bangalow in the last 12 months, where the community took that operation on, so I'm hopeful that the meeting organised tonight will actually come up with some plan for the future.

"Essentially community land cannot be sold.

"From my perspective, I don't think there'd be any plans at all by the council to actually consider changing this to operational (zoning).

"I think the councillors would like to see this operation continue in the middle of Lennox Head, so I would think there's little possibility of that (rezoning happening) at this point in time."

Meanwhile, club member Louise Owen says residents opposed the amalgamation with Ramsgate RSL when it was first discussed six years ago.

She says the Sydney club has gone back on its word.

"They said we wouldn't be doing this unless we were here for a long-term commitment," Ms Owen said.

"The audience at the time laughed at that, laughed in their faces, and it's now come to fruition.

"This is exactly what was predicted would happen back then when they took over, because we were so against what they were doing and now it's all happened."

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